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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN H. KIMBALL, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

RAILWAY STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 411,340, datedSeptember 17, 1889.

Application filed July 20, 1888. Serial 'Nox Z80,560%. (No model.)

g range the fittings that each horse can be attended to individually andput in and taken out of his stall without interfering with or disturbingthe others; that the horses are so placed as to be best able toaccommodate themselves to the movement of the car; that the conditionsof the horses7 stables are as far as possible reproduced in the car, andthat the fittings can be so adjusted as to give room for two, three, orfour horses in each row of stalls,

. and can be stowed away in the car so as to afford an open floor-spaceupon which freightsuch as flour in barrels--can be stored.

The car may be thus briefly described: It is framed as a box-car, with acentral transverse partition dividing the car into two compartments,each provided with side openings closed by doors sliding toward the endsof the car. The internal fittings, which can all be removed to give aclear ioorspace for freight, are as follows, and, as both compartmentsare alike, only one need be described: At a suitable distance from theends of each compartment I propose to set in sockets and secure tocross-beams at the top of the car posts, which form the stall-posts,leaving in the compartment a central space or alley with openings oneach side for ingress and egress, in which the feed can be kept and theattendant do his work. The sockets into which the posts are stepped areso arranged in the iioor that either three or four stalls may be formedat each end, or one (almost a loose box) for a mare and foal, or onelarge stall and two ordinary ones. The stall-partitions are secured inany suitable way to these posts and to the ends of the compartment, andto the posts are hinged or otherwise attached and locked in place curvedpieces, which willgive the divisions the shape of ordinarystable-stalls. Across the front of each row of stalls is placed abreast-board, against which the horses can lean, and in one with this ismade a feed-trough, both being carried in pockets at the side of thecars. In the center of the car and over the division between thecompartments is placed a tank, which can be iilled from any tank on` arailway, and from which water-pipes provided with proper cocks are takento the alleys in both compartments. 'For ventilation I provide anopening at each end ofthe car in addition to two openings on each sidenear the ends of the stalls, all these being filled in with wire-gauze,as well as a large opening in the door. l further provide on both sidesof the car, and running between the doorwaysof the compartments afootboard, which can be let down toallow of the passage of the attendantof one compartment into the other, a hand-rail being fixed to the sideof the car to assist him in passing. The door-fastenings are so arrangedthat they cannot project beyond the edge of the door, and there isthere- `fore no chance of the horse coming in contact with them inentering or leaving the car.

For full comprehension of my invention reference must be had to theannexed drawings, forming part of this specicationfin whichn y Y Figurel is a perspective view of one row of stalls taken from the alley; Fig.2, a diagram of car, showing alternative arrangement of stalls; Fig. 3,a longitudinal sectional elevation of part of car; Fig. 4, a view of thedoor-fastening and side foot-board, and Fig. 5 an elevation and plan ofthe stall-post.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A is the central transverse partition, dividing the car into twocompartments, and B the tank, (shown specially in Fig. 8,) preferablyextending the Whole width of thecar, and

having an opening B provided with a hatch or cover through which it canbe filled in the same way that a tender is supplied.

l) b are water-pipes leading from the tank on either side of thepartition to the central alley l, and provided with cocks b. y

C O are posts set into sockets C C ,formed in the floor of the ear,their heads being set IOO between transverse beams O2 C2 and securedthereto by bolts c c, which pass through boltholes formed in thetransverse beams C2 C2 at points immediately over the sockets C C. Theposts C are provided with channels or `grooves d. The position of theseposts C C can be varied, as shown in diagram, Fig. 2,in which thefigures 2 2 2 2 denote stalls accommodating four horses in a row; 3 3 3,three horses; l, an extra large stall formare and foal with an ordinarystall 2, and 5 a large stall with an ordinary stall 2 on either side.

D D are stall-divisions constructed of boards in any usual way slippedinto place between uprights d d, secured on the ends of the compartmentand on the posts. To the posts are hinged pieces E E, resembling thehead of a stall, resting on and locked to the top board of division,serving to keep the horses from seeing their neighbors in the nextstalls.

F F are the breast-boards, to which are attached the feed-troughs Gr G,both these resting immediately in front of the posts in pockets g g,formed on the sides of the car.

' H H are the doors sliding toward the ends of the car and provided, asusual, with fastenings in the shape of eyes h, over which the hasppasses and is locked. l propose, however, instead of hinging part ofthis hasp, which may project beyond the edge of the door and hurt thehorse when passing in or out,lto have. the fastening a drop-link, as ath Ventilation is effected in each compartment by one large opening K atthe end and two K K" on each side near the stall-posts. In the doors arealso formed openings H', and all these are filled with wire-gauze andprovided with shutters.

L is the kicking-bar, placed across the car and suitably carried.

To insure rapid communication between the compartments of the carin caseof assistance being required by either attendant, I hinge to the sidesof the car between the doors foot-boards M, which can be let down by anysystem of levers M', as in Fig. 4, thus affording passage-ways. m is aiixed handrail for safety.

From the above description and the drawings-it will be seen that thehorse can be very easily introduced into the central alley 1 and thencebacked into his stall and haltered on both sides to rings sliding onvertical rods on the posts, the side pieces E E preventing stallionsfrom being irritated when in place by the sight of cach other, andserving to keep them apart. The breast board gives the horses a rest,against which they can brace themselves, and the feed-trough and water-'supply enable the horses to be fed and watered with very greatfacility. By this arrangement anyhorse can be withdrawn from or put intoa stall without interfering with the other horses-an arrangement whichwill be found ofvery great use in case of sickness in transit.

As the whole of the iittin gs, with the exception of the centraltransverse partition, are removable and can be stowed away in suitablereceptacles formed in the car, it may be used for the transportation offlour or like freight on its return journey.

For small shipments of horses, cars of only the capacity of one of thecompartments may be used, and, as before mentioned, be fitted up exactlyin the same way, except that the tank will be divided and half placed ateach end, the pipes being led, as before, to the central alley.

What I claim is as follows:

1. In the herein-d escribed convertible stockcar, the combination, withthe main body thereof, of the stall-posts having their inner faceschanneled so as to receive the ends of the stall division-boards, thecentral partition secured, vcross-beams secured to the top and side ofthe car, within which the ends of the stall-posts pass, the car-floorprovided with a series of sockets, into which the lower ends of thestall-posts fit, and of the bolts or pins for securing the stall-postsbetween the crossbeams, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. ln the herein-described railway stockcar, the combination, with themovable stallposts, said posts fitting at their lower end within thesockets formed in the car-Hoor, of the transverse beams running theentire width of the car and secured to the top and sides thereof, saidtransverse beams having an opening or channel formed therebetween intowhich the upper ends of the stall-posts iit, securing pin or boltpassing through holes in the side of the transverse beams and into thestall-posts at the top thereof for securing said posts in an adjustedposition, stall-divisions having their forward ends secured in groovesor channels formed in the rear face of the stall-posts, and the rearends thereof within the channel formed by the uprights d d, and of thebreast-board running the entire width of the car, in front of thestalls, and being secured in the pockets g g at either side of the ycar,substantially as set forth.

In the herein-described convertible stockcar, the combination, with themovable horsestalls, said stalls consisting of the stall-posts adaptedto be secured at their lower ends within the sockets formed in thecar-licor, and at their upper ends, within or between the transversecross-beams, secured at the car top and sides, and of thestall-divisions secured at their front to the stall-posts and at theirrear within the channel or groove between the uprights d d, ofthebreast-board and feedtrough passing in front of the stalls andrunning the entire width of the car, pockets se- IOO IIO

cured to the ear-sides and into which the ends of the breast-board andfeed-trough are secured, and of the transverse kicking-bar passing abovethe stalls near t-he rear thereof, and having its ends adjustablysecured in the pockets located at the side of the car, substantially asherein shown and described.

4. In the herein-described convertible stock railway-car, thecombinatiomwith the main body thereof, of the central transversepartition dividing the car into two compartments, movable horse-stallslocated on either side of the central partition and at the ends of thecar, cross-beams C2, vertical stall-posts C, the upper ends of which litbetween the transverse beams C2 and the lower ends within the socketc,formed in the car-floor, locking-bolt c, passing through the sides ofthe transverse beams and ends of the stall-posts, so as to se cure thelatter in position, stall-divisions D, constructed of boards secured attheir forward ends within the channel or groove d',

formed in the stall-posts, and at their rear ends between the uprights dcl, breast-board and feed-trough passing in front of the horsestalls,pockets g g at the side of the car into which the ends of thebreast-board and feedtrough are secured, transverse adjustablekicking-bar secured above the stalls near the rear thereof,locking-pockets at either side of the car into Which the ends of saidbar are secured, Water-tank secured centrally Within the car above thetransverse central partition and running the entire Width of the car,opening B in the car-top through Which water passes into the Water-tank,swinging doors secured to the top of the car for closing said opening,and of the Water-distributing pipes b, leading from said tank to anydesired portion of the car, substantially as set forth.

J. I-I. KIMBALL.

Witnesses:

OWEN N. EVANS, WM. P. Mc. FEAT.

